For Photographers

So here is where we list all the gear we use to photograph, back-up, edit and print photo’s from our wedding and portrait shoots. We’ll be posting more specific workflow information in the months to come so stay tuned! If you have any questions at all definitely send us an email, we love to “talk shop”.

We use Canon digital and film cameras. Love’em.

Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 1D Mark III
Canon 1D Mark II
Canon Elan 7e Film Camera

Our camera bag is a bit of a revolving door for lenses but these are the “go to” ones that we’ve shot 95% of everything with:

Canon 35mm 1.4L
Canon 85mm 1.2L
Canon 70-200 2.8L IS
Canon 24-70 2.8L
Sigma 50mm 1.4

Lighting:

Canon 580ex II
Canon 430ex II
Canon 430ex
Alien Bee B800 Studio Strobe
Pocket Wizard’s ControlTL wireless transmitters/transceivers

Computers:

Apple MacPro Quad Core
Apple MacBook Pro 15″
Samsung 24″ SyncMaster  Monitor
Samsung 19″ SyncMaster Monitor
Acer 19″ Monitor
About 13 Terabytes  of hard drive space

Software:

We use Apple’s Aperture for  all our sorting, selecting, color correcting and gallery hosting. When you combine Aperture with Mobile Me, it becomes quite a powerful tool, check it out.
Photoshop CS4 Extended
PhotoTools
PhotoFrame
PhotoTune
Genuine Fractals
Focal Point
Mask Pro
Noise Ninja

Back up: The files we work with are stored in four different places(more on this later)

Drobo
Pictage
Working Drives
DVD’s (rarely)